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title: "Licensing for WooCommerce"
url: "https://kestrelwp.com/new-product/licensing-for-woocommerce/"
description: ""
published: "2024-04-19T20:34:12+00:00"
modified: "2026-10-07T04:52:16+00:00"
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KestrelWP labs · hatched

# Licensing hatched. *Meet API Manager.*

The licensing plugin we were building is here as API Manager for WooCommerce: license keys, activations, and update delivery for software you sell with WooCommerce.

[See API Manager](/product/api-manager-for-woocommerce/)

[Back to labs](/new-product/)

30-day money back

works with subscriptions and Constellation

What shipped

## Turn your store into a *licensing server*.

Sell WordPress plugins and themes, SaaS access, apps, and downloads, and answer activation and update requests from your customers’ software.

[Product page](/product/api-manager-for-woocommerce/)

### License keys

A paid order creates a license with an activation limit and an optional expiry. Use one key per customer or one per product.

### Activation limits

Limit sites or devices per license, or allow unlimited activations. Staging and local activations don’t use a slot.

### Update delivery

Serve plugin and theme updates from a local zip, Amazon S3, or a remote URL, with expiring download links.

### Renewals and subscriptions

Licenses follow WooCommerce Subscriptions or Constellation status, or use their own renewal windows.

### PHP client library

Drop the client library into a WordPress plugin or theme to handle activation and update checks.

### Customer account

Customers see keys, activations, renewals, and downloads in My Account.

Is it for you?

## Built for *software sellers*.

API Manager fits stores that sell software: WordPress plugins and themes, WooCommerce extensions, desktop or web apps, and other licensed downloads. Your customers activate with a key, and your store answers from its own API.

Plugin and theme shops

SaaS and app developers

Agencies selling their own products

Anyone moving off WooCommerce Software Add-On

Selling software on WooCommerce?

## Your licensing server, *inside your store*.

Try API Manager for 30 days. If it isn’t right, we’ll refund 100 percent.

[See API Manager](/product/api-manager-for-woocommerce/)

[Ask a question](/contact/)

[Read the docs](/docs/)

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